Gail Sheehy Quotes

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Gail Sheehy

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 27, 1937

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

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The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

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Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

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